Whilemost of California and the nation was transfixed this week on whetherthe $789 billion federal stimulus package was going to be approved inWashington, another drama -- no less important to Californians
The economic scholar Ronald Coase once characterized themarket as "islands of butter in a pail of buttermilk." Similarly,President Obama's stimulus package could be characterized as
The percapita income in Californiawas $33,749 in 2005, according to U.S. Census Bureau Data.
If thealternative minimum tax fix that expired in December isn't renewed, taxpayersmaking
$70 billion is the magic number being floated right now by Congressional memberstrying to push along the federal government stimulus package throughboth houses of Congress with bipartisan support. Those billions
In the endlessstream of panicked budgetary suggestions, there is one area which oftenreceives the most unpleasant amounts of irrational hatred from itsopponents, and which spawns the greatest number of guilt-
Businesseslargeand small loathe it.
The nation's giggling about it, though everyone'smissing a much better laugh line in South Dakota's proposed tax on rodeo clowns.
The People of the State of California hereby find and declare all of the following:
(a) Purpose. The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act is hereby adopted by the people
The impending budget cataclysm, having drawn all the politicalcourage it possibly can out of California's politicians, has now begunproducing the much-less-desirable opposite reaction: namely, panic.
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They say we now live a "post-partisan" world.
The phrase implies that in 2009 we have all risen to a practical,solutions-based approach to politics that
California is known forleading the nation in many ventures, trends and movements, and 2009is no different. In areas all across California, local and stategovernments are supporting "greening" measures
Last week a federal judge ruled in support ofCalifornia campaign finance disclosure laws that requires making publicthe names of political donors contributing more than $100 to a campaignor candidate.
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Like a spare peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the California government has spread itself too thin.
That is where the similarities stop, as the aforementioned sandwich is a much more
